Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe

This volume makes a compelling case for the urgency of foregrounding gender and sexuality to connect Middle Eastern and European critiques of far-right politics. Locating the collection in its contemporary moment – of ongoing genocide in Gaza and increased populism and right-wing political recognition in Europe - the editors show the centrality of anti-gender and anti-LGBTQ aggression to both contexts. Indeed, it is through shining a spotlight on anti-gender and anti-LGBT aggression that the connections between the two sites, and their colonial and anti-migrant histories, can best be made. Importantly, the focus here is on the multiple forms of resistance that constitute the terrain: queer feminist interventions; critical comparisons; bottom-up mobilisation and knowledge production. Through a variety of case studies and critical interventions, the editors and authors insist that it is precisely this resistance that offers hope in the contested political present. -- Clare Hemmings, London School of Economics and Political Science